AERPAW: Air Corridor Emulation

This demonstration showcases an emulated air corridor system for managing multiple UAVs. Using ArduPilot's software-in-the-loop (SITL), several UAVs autonomously navigate through a 3D grid-based air corridor, maintaining safe distances from each other. The demo highlights the system's ability to dynamically adapt to changes by closing the initial corridor mid-flight and re-routing the UAVs through an alternate corridor. Real-time visualization is provided via Google Earth, and the entire system is orchestrated using Docker containers for each UAV and a ground coordinator.

It is authored by John Kesler (student), Prof. Mihael Sichitiu, and Prof. Ismail Guvenc, North Carolina State University.